https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/elvago-receives-a-%F0%9F%94%B4-warning-and-threadban-derailing-in-an-a-game-thread.887160/
And remember, you don't ever get to defend yourself or others from allegations while on TBP. Otherwise you're just another shitlord.
IMHO, this is the most chilling one. "Innocent until proven guilty" (or "Presumption of innocence") is an international Human Right under the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As heavy as it seems, RPG.net is now posing themselves as human rights violators.
Eh, the UN's declaration isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Look at some of the members and tell me they EVER gave a damn about human rights.
Fine. This is just another way to say that RPG.net doesn't give a damn about Human Rights. This doesn't make Human Rights wrong or those who ignore them "Paladins of Justice".
“Ah, yes, the "unalienable rights." Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What "right" to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What "right" to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of "right"? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is "unalienable"? And is it "right"? As to liberty, the heroes who signed the great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
"The third "right"? - the "pursuit of happiness"? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can "pursue happiness" as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.” --Robert Heinlein,
Starship TroopersIn any case, though, you're not entirely wrong. But I daresay a TBP mod would argue that the 'right' of the posters to not be 'triggered' by unpleasant discussion to override any quibbling about things like 'due process'. And that the 'rights' of criminals are more meaningful than that of a policeman defending himself (referencing their stance on police shootings).
You might consider reading Kevin Baker's commentary on this:
https://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2003/05/before-i-go-to-bed-who-am-i-fooling.htmlHe makes a good point: ultimately, rights are what a society agrees on and believes in. TBP is a micro-society, yes, but it has decided that trembling snowflakes have the right to not be triggered by dispassionate discussions about unpleasant things like slavery, or that negative criticism of a topic is tantamount to 'threadcrapping' and should be stamped out. I'm sure the Taliban would be happy to lecture on the 'rights' of the menfolk in their society, as well. Maybe we should arrange a meeting between the two. And sell tickets to the pay per view.